Very Brief Summary of Activities of IEAP CTU in Prague within SuperNEMO Experiment

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SuperNEMO is a double-beta (𝛽𝛽) decay experiment, designed to look for the hypothesized lepton-number-violating process of neutrinoless double-beta decay (0𝜈𝛽𝛽). SuperNEMO’s tracker-calorimeter design, based on the NEMO-3 technology (its very successful predecessor), is also well suited for precision studies of the Standard Model double-beta decay process (2𝜈𝛽𝛽) which is present in all 0𝜈𝛽𝛽 candidate isotopes. Both types of 𝛽𝛽 decay produce two electrons around the MeV energy scale, which SuperNEMO can individually track; the processes can be distinguished by studying the energies of these electrons. Study of this process have a potential to answer some of the fundamental questions of the neutrino physics. It can potentially provide information about the still unknown neutrino masses. At the same time it is the only known possibility how to experimentally prove that a neutrino is its own antiparticle. The talk will be dedicated to brief introduction of the detector and the current activities of the team from IEAP CTU in Prague within the experiment.

SuperNEMO is a double-beta (𝛽𝛽) decay experiment, designed to look for the hypothesized lepton-number-violating process of neutrinoless double-beta decay (0𝜈𝛽𝛽). SuperNEMO’s tracker-calorimeter design, based on the NEMO-3 technology (its very successful predecessor), is also well suited for precision studies of the Standard Model double-beta decay process (2𝜈𝛽𝛽) which is present in all 0𝜈𝛽𝛽 candidate isotopes. Both types of 𝛽𝛽 decay produce two electrons around the MeV energy scale, which SuperNEMO can individually track; the processes can be distinguished by studying the energies of these electrons. Study of this process have a potential to answer some of the fundamental questions of the neutrino physics. It can potentially provide information about the still unknown neutrino masses. At the same time it is the only known possibility how to experimentally prove that a neutrino is its own antiparticle. The talk will be dedicated to brief introduction of the detector and the current activities of the team from IEAP CTU in Prague within the experiment.